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Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.
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Approximate
number of
plants used
Remarks on changes
Literature
Building a Pharmacopoeia.
3000 B.C. to 1000 B.C.
289
Vedic texts.
Charaka.
650
Astanga.
Sushruta.
Sangraha.
Astanga.
Hridaya.
1814
3. Varietes identified.
4. Substitutes identified.
5. Expansion in application.
16 major
Nighantus like
Dhanvantari
Bhavaprakasha
Raja upto
Shaligram.
A great muslim physician, chemist and philosopher, Muhammad Ibne Zakariya Al-Razi (864-932 A.D.)
wrote many books among which the most famous is Kitab-al-Mansoori consisting of ten volumes and
allotted thoroughly with Greeco-Arab system of medicine. This book was transformed into Latin in
15thcentury A.D. Moreover, he was the first physician who used opium as general anaesthetic.
Ibn-e-Rabban Al-Tabavi (883-970 A.D.), a great personality in the field of medicine, introduced his book
named as Fardous al Hikmat comprising of seven parts (Hylander, 1960). The sixth part discusses the
poisonous drugs. The most famous physician and philosopher of all times, Ibne Sina (Avicenna, 980-1037
A.D.) distinguished 760 herbal drugs in his famous book Qunan fi al-Tibb which is known as the
Cannon in the west. It was regarded as the most reliable materia medica of that time (Chartard, 1908).
Another well-known arab scientist Al-Idrisi (1100-1166 A.D.) has made a remarkable place in the field of
medicine. He wrote various books on medicinal plants from which the special one is
Kitab-al-Jami-Li-Siffat Ashtat Al-Nabatat. He arranged a large number of plant derived drugs in six
different languages: Syriac, Greek, Persian, Hindi, Latin and Berber. Another well-known botanist and
pharmacist Ibne-Al Baitar who died in Damascus in 1241 A.D. wrote a massive work
Jama-al-Muffaradat in which he collected the remarks of Dioscorides, Galen, Rhazes, Ibne Sina and
others on a large number of drugs. This book discusses 2,000 traditional herbal drugs from which 1700 are
herbs. He also wrote a book named as: Kitab Al-Mughni-Li-Adwiya-Al-Muffaarada.
The historical development of herbal remedies for the treatment of diseases can be categorized
chronologically into four stages (Steiner, 1986).
Crude drugs were prepared and used in roughest manner such as powdered cinchona.
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Drugs were converted into more active and modified forms such as aqueous or alcoholic extracts.
Separation and usage of pure active principles, e.g. morphine, quinine etc.
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Hylander, J. C. (1960). The World of Plant Life. The MacMillan Company New York, 1059.
Kirtikar, K.R. and Basu, B . D. (1958). Indian Medicinal Plants 2nd edition, Bishen Singh, Mahendra Pal
Singh, India, 1, 11-13.
Saeed, H.M. (1978). Traditional Medicine in the Service of Health. Karachi, Pakistan, 8-10.
Sazada, S., Arti, V., Ayaz, A. R., Faraha, J. and Mukesh, K. M. (2009). Preliminary phytochemical analysis
of some important medicinal and aromatic plants. Advances in Biological Research, 3 , 188-195.
Singh, V. K. and Abrar, M. (1990). Medicinal Plants and Folklore, Today and Tomorrow. Printers and
Publishers, New Delhi, 1-5.
Steiner, R. P. (1986). Folk Medicine: The Art and the Science. American Chemical Society, Washington DC,
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